Professor Chris Taylor, OBE, BSc, PhD, FREng

Chris has served on the General Assembly and the Board of Governors since 2011.

Chris received his BSc in Physics and PhD in Computer Image Analysis from The University of Manchester, in 1967 and 1972 respectively. He currently holds joint appointments in the University – in the Medical School, where his research group is based, and in the School of Computer Science, where he was Head of School from 2004 to 2008. He also has a University-wide role as Associate Vice President for Research.  

His research is in computer vision and medical image analysis, with a central interest in developing generic methods to underpin practical applications in medicine, industry, and commerce.  He also has a long history of involvement in technology transfer, establishing long-term partnerships with industry and spinning out five new companies. 

Chris was awarded an OBE in 2000 for contributions to foresight and health informatics and was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the British Machine Vision Association in 2003, Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition in 2004, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2006, and Fellow of the (International) Medical Image Computing and Computer Aided Intervention Society in 2009. He was the third recipient of the MICCAI Enduring Impact Award in 2011.